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Danny Baker is a 29 year old contemporary fiction author whose works thus far have focused on love, relationships, mental health and travel. He’s currently published three books – the Amazon UK Top 100 bestseller I Will Not Kill Myself, Olivia, which explores how high school sweethearts Jimmy and Olivia try to hang on to love in the face of Jimmy’s mounting depression; the sequel I Just Want To Be Happy, Olivia;and the Amazon UK Top 100 and #1 international mental health bestseller Depression is a Liar, which is a memoir about Danny’s struggle and eventual triumph over depression (and that in 2018, will be made into an audiobook by renowned UK publisher W. F. Howes).

Although originally from Sydney, Australia, Danny travels the world full-time while he writes his books. He spent 2016 and 2017 in Latin America and Europe; and in 2018 will be based in Poland with his girlfriend, while intermittently travelling around Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia.

His future goals include to visit every country in the world, to hit the New York Times bestseller list, and to get married one day and have a family.